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Neil Pursey: Brands can, and should, ensure that their ads don’t appear on fake news sites

November 9, 2018

A recent investigation by News24 revealed that many of South Africa’s biggest brands were inadvertently funding fake news sites. In the article, many of the brands implicated (or their agency

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Paula Hulley: Business success and online brand safety go hand-in-hand

October 19, 2018

The definition of good business practice is being able to evolve in parallel to the rapid changes, opportunities and even threats of modern technology. That is why the equity and

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William Bird: The upside to “fake news”

October 9, 2018

“Fake news”. It’s a poor term, and much like an advertisement for penis extensions, its promises to deliver are inevitably a let down, and the only big penis is the

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Adriaan Basson: The high price of fake news

October 9, 2018

Have you ever clicked on a story in your Facebook timeline that you knew wasn’t true? I have. “Pope Francis Just Backed Donald Trump.” Or: “Learn how this Bloemfontein millionaire

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Natasha Ndlebe: When ‘fake news’ became the word of the year

October 9, 2018

Last year, the Collins Dictionary named “fake news” as the word of the year. The phrase famously gained prominence with the election of US President Donald Trump. He used the

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Reggy Moalusi: Breaking news, fingers first

October 9, 2018

Editing a daily newspaper in the digital age of video, WhatsApp, Twitter, and to some extent Instagram, has its exhilarations and challenges. Story tips are sent from all corners of

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George Claassen: Fake news and the natural selection of ignorance

October 9, 2018

A decade after the multiple award-winning British journalist Nick Davies warned that the mass media are acting more like a global village idiot, highly ignorant and easily taken for a

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